The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced a call for feedback from the community. This feedback will be used to create an update to the FSF’s High Priority Free Software Projects (HPP). According to the Foundation, the HPP initiative draws attention to specific area of development and projects of strategic importance, with the ultimate goal … continue reading
Halloween is upon us, and while much of the world is focused on scary creatures like ghosts, ghouls, or werewolves, DevSecOps teams have a few scary creatures of their own to deal with. From the Dracula-like developer stuck in a world from centuries ago who is thwarting the creation of secure apps, to the DevOps … continue reading
Microsoft has invested heavily in developer solutions, adding enhancements to Visual Studio like GitHub Codespaces, Git Integrations, and IntelliCode Team Completions. Now, the company is planning on creating a new extensibility model for Visual Studio extensions. According to Microsoft, this new model will make extensions more reliable, easier to write, and supported locally and in … continue reading
The latest version of the open-source machine learning library PyTorch is now available. PyTorch 1.7 introduces new APIs, support for CUDA 11, updates to profiling and performance for RPC, TorchScript, and Stack tracers. New front end APIs include torch.fft, which is a module for implementing FFT-related functions; C++ support for nn.transformer module abstraction from the … continue reading
Grafana Labs has made a number of updates to its observability portfolio this week at its virtual ObservabilityCON conference. The updates include the release of Loki 2.0, Grafana Tempo, Grafana 7.3, new plugins, and Grafana Metrics Enterprise. Loki 2.0 includes improvements to the query language, allowing users to transform logs and extract additional labels, according to … continue reading
Digital experience platform provider Episerver has announced that it is acquiring experimentation and optimization company Optimizely. The acquisition will enable Episerver to help customers optimize every user touchpoint. According to the cmopany, customers will be able to do more testing with greater ease than ever before. “While every B2B and B2C company is online today, … continue reading
A new report has revealed security, connectivity, and data collection and analytics are the top three concerns for Internet of Things (IoT) developers. Thirty-nine percent of respondents cited security as a concern, 27% for connectivity, and 26% for data collection and analysis. The 2020 IoT Developer Survey conducted by the Eclipse Foundation was completed using … continue reading
Continuous orchestration platform provider Opsera has created a new approach for software delivery that combines CI/CD tools with no-code automation. According to the company, by orchestrating tools, pipelines, and insights through a single platform, customers will see benefits such as faster time to deployment, resource optimization, and a cross-functional perspective with KPIs that better correlate … continue reading
Npm has announced that npm v7.0.0 will ship with the Node.js 15.0.0 release next week. Npm v7.0.0 introduces a number of highly requested features, such as Workspaces, the ability to automatically install peer dependencies, and package-lock v2 and support for yarn.lock Workspaces are a set of features that offer support from managing multiple packages within … continue reading
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool that can help fix hang bugs, which occur when software gets stuck, but doesn’t crash. HangFix helps detect hang bugs, diagnose the problem, and apply a patch to correct the root cause of the issue. “Many of us have experience with hang bugs – … continue reading
Remote working has become the new normal for many, especially those in the development world where work can easily be done in a remote setting. But continuous working from home does come with some downsides, such as burnout. In a webinar sponsored by Devtech Group, innovation consultant Nils Vesk explained 14 of the most common … continue reading
This week’s highlighted open-source project is actually a collection of tools. Compliance company Anchore recently announced it would be launching a suite of open-source tools to help companies automated DevSecOps pipeline security and analysis. The first of those tools to be released are Syft and Grype. Syft analyzes container images and filesystems, then creates a … continue reading
